Can experiments settle the free will debate? | Julian Baggini, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Sarah Garfinkel
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Importance of Free Will
Julian Assange: I think the only kind of free will which makes sense is to have the capacity to act on your own decisions and desires and wants in a somewhat and sometimes self-conscious way. The Libby experiment shows that you should never be surprised by how an experiment goes because there's something unconscious going on in your brain when you make a decision, he says. He also believes we are not consciously aware of what's going on in a brain right so as a broadly educated sensible 21st century person you should know that your thoughts and your feelings and your actions are being powered by this thing in the brain through processes through which you are entirely unconscious Right? So if you believe that you
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